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  Washington (AFP) Dec 16, 2022 A satellite lifted off Friday from California on a mission to survey nearly all bodies of water on Earth, offering key insights on how they influence or are impacted by climate change. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a billion-dollar project jointly developed by NASA and France's space agency CNES, took off at 1146 GMT atop a SpaceX rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base. According to a statement from NASA, it will start collecting scientific data in about six month ... read more |
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NASA sensors to help detect methane emitted by landfillsPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 18, 2022 Observations from the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) and other NASA science instruments will be part of a global survey of point-source emissions of methane from solid waste ... more  
Hope stirs for deal to save nature at UN talksMontreal (AFP) Dec 17, 2022 Top officials at high-stakes UN biodiversity negotiations said Saturday they were confident of securing a major deal to save the natural world from destruction. ... more 
Nature at risk of 'cascading' species extinction: studyParis (AFP) Dec 16, 2022 Climate change and habitat degradation will cause extinctions that cascade through communities of animals and plants and drive dramatic biodiversity loss, according to new research published on Friday. ... more  
SpaceX launches NASA's water topography satellite into orbitWashington DC (UPI) Dec 16, 2021 The Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite launched Friday morning from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. ... more |
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Spain govt defends flood response and offers new aid Spain govt defends flood action as it offers new aid Moderately strong quake hits off central Japan Indonesia digs out as flooding, landslide death toll hits 20 16 dead, seven missing in Indonesia flood: disaster agency Storm Bert bring widespread flooding in Britain Landslide kills nine in DR Congo Storms bring chaos to Ireland, France, UK are Storms bring chaos to Ireland, France, UK |
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Shedding light on photosynthesis at seaOsaka, Japan (SPX) Dec 18, 2022 Plants that live on land, such as spinach, grow by using sunlight to perform photosynthesis. How, then, do algae photosynthesize in the deep sea, an environment where only a little light reaches the ... more 
How SERVIR is helping Southeast Asia adapt to variable rainfallGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 18, 2022 In the United States, the agriculture sector is not immune to floods and droughts. But when these disasters hit, the system is designed to be robust enough to bounce back quickly. With an economy th ... more 
NanoAvionics to supply Constellr with two satellites to help saving 60 billion tons of water globallyVilnius, Lithuania (SPX) Dec 18, 2022 Kongsberg NanoAvionics has signed a contract with thermal data provider Constellr to supply it with two of its flagship MP42 microsatellite buses. Having recently raised 10 million euros, Germany-ba ... more  
Climate change fuelling cholera surge: WHOGeneva (AFP) Dec 16, 2022 Climate change is fuelling a global cholera upsurge, the WHO said Friday, warning the situation was compounded by vaccine shortages and will only worsen unless it is stamped out soon. ... more |
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Almost 10,000 trapped amid Colombia rebel "armed strike"Bogota (AFP) Dec 17, 2022 Rebels in Colombia who have launched an armed strike have essentially trapped thousands of people in the northwest, authorities said Friday. ... more 
New funding announcements at high-stakes UN nature summitMontreal (AFP) Dec 16, 2022 The world's environment ministers began the final phase of crunch talks at a UN summit in Montreal on Thursday aimed at sealing a historic "peace pact with nature." ... more 
After three years, Covid 'here to stay'Paris (AFP) Dec 16, 2022 While the World Health Organization hopes Covid-19 will soon no longer be considered a public health emergency, it has warned the virus itself is here to stay. ... more  
Red Cross fears "enormous suffering" in 2023Geneva (AFP) Dec 14, 2022 The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross warned Wednesday "an enormous level of suffering" awaits the world in 2023 with famine spreading. ... more |
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UN says funds for flood-hit Pakistan to run out in weeksIslamabad (AFP) Dec 15, 2022 The United Nations on Thursday said emergency food aid for devastated flood-hit communities in Pakistan would run out in January after a funding appeal received only a third of its target. ... more  
Nineteen killed, 14 missing in Malaysia landslideBatang Kali, Malaysia (AFP) Dec 16, 2022 Nearly 20 people, including four children, were killed when a landslide struck a campsite at a Malaysian farm on Friday, officials said, with rescuers scouring the muddy terrain for those still missing. ... more  
Indonesia quake death toll jumps to 602 after new countJakarta (AFP) Dec 16, 2022 The death toll from an earthquake that hit Indonesia's main island Java last month has jumped by hundreds to 602, a local administration official said Friday, after authorities verified unreported casualties across the worst-hit town. ... more 
China Covid 'explosion' began before restrictions eased: WHOGeneva (AFP) Dec 14, 2022 The flare-up in Covid-19 cases in China was well underway before the government began easing restrictions, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. ... more 
Developing nations demand more money at crunch UN biodiversity talksMontreal (AFP) Dec 15, 2022 The thorny issue of how much money wealthy countries are willing to pony up to protect the world's remaining biodiversity took center stage Wednesday at UN talks in Montreal aimed at creating a "peace pact with nature." ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 
ICEYE, the global leader in satellite persistent monitoring of the planet and an expert in natural catastrophe solutions, has announced the start of a multi-year framework contract with the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) to support their efforts in managing various aspects of maritime operations with SAR data.
Among its many missions, the European Maritime Safety Agency, a European ... more |
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 Midland TX (SPX) Dec 18, 2022 
AST SpaceMobile reports that its subsidiary, AST and Science, LLC, and NASA recently signed an agreement to formalize both organizations' dedication to maintaining and improving safety in the shared environment of space.
The Space Act Agreement formalizes the prompt, detailed, and open sharing of information between AST SpaceMobile and NASA, enabling a deeper level of coordination, coopera ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 13, 2022 
Set for a Thursday, Dec. 15 launch, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite promises to provide an extraordinary accounting of water over much of Earth's surface. Its measurements of fresh water and the ocean will help researchers address some of the most pressing climate questions of our time and help communities prepare for a warming world. Making this possible is a scientific ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Dec 13, 2022 
The lakes on the roof of the world show a trend of later freezing-up, earlier breaking-up and thus shorten ice-covered duration since late 1970s, researchers report in the 2nd December Nature Scientific Data. The findings explicitly reflect the changes in thermodynamics of lakes under a warmer climate and implicate substantial associated alteration in biogeochemical processes in the region.
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 Saint-Fort-Sur-Gironde, France (AFP) Dec 12, 2022  At the fish farm near Bordeaux, Christophe Baudon is running an ultrasound device over the belly of a large sturgeon to check its eggs.
"Caviar!" he shouts as the monitor shows the right sparkle around each little round ball.
"Over-mature!" comes the next shout, indicating the fish's pregnancy cycle has gone too far and the eggs have softened - losing the crucial crunch. It will go back ... more |
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 Kinshasa (AFP) Dec 14, 2022  More than 120 people were killed Tuesday as the worst floods in years battered DR Congo's capital Kinshasa following an all-night downpour, authorities said in a provisional assessment.
Major roads in the centre of Kinshasa, a city of some 15 million people, were submerged for hours, and a key supply route was cut off.
The death toll - which was first estimated in the late afternoon to ... more |
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 Kampala (AFP) Dec 13, 2022 
Ugandan forces killed 11 ADF rebels after they crossed into the country from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the army said Tuesday, in the first known incursion by the group this year.
The Allied Democratic Forces - which the Islamic State group claims as its Central African offshoot - is accused of slaughtering thousands of Congolese civilians and carrying out bombings in Uganda.
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Dec 15, 2022 
The idea that humans are facing a global extinction of experience of nature is popular, but there is poor empirical evidence of its reality. To shed more light on this, the scientists measured how the average distance from an individual's home to the nearest area with low human impact changed in the last decade. They found that humans currently live 9.7 km away from a natural area on average, wh ... more |
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 San Francisco FL (SPX) Dec 13, 2022 
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, have announced a new contract with ZEP-RE, a reinsurance company based in Nairobi, Kenya, to leverage Planet's Basemaps products to enhance drought risk protection in the Horn of Africa (HOA).
ZEP-RE aims to leverage PlanetScope 3-5 meter resolution imagery through Planet's analysis-ready, Surface Reflec ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 18, 2022 
ESA's wind mission continues to shine as engineers have worked their Christmas magic. With a switch back to its original laser, Aeolus is now shining more than twice as brightly with its best ever performance - just in time for the holidays.
It's another remarkable success for ESA's fifth Earth Explorer. Launched in 2018 after many technical challenges, Aeolus pioneered what none had pione ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Dec 13, 2022 
A research project undertaken by the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and the Institute of Geoscience (IGEO, CSIC-UCM) identified various marine worms from the Palaeozoic era (Ordovician period) 455 million years ago at the Tafilalt Biota site in Morocco. They correspond to the new genus and species Anguiscolex africanus, and the new species Wronascolex superstes.
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 Montreal (AFP) Dec 14, 2022  A high-stakes UN summit in Canada seen as vital to saving the world's biodiversity has failed to attract a single world leader beyond the host country's prime minister Justin Trudeau.
It was left therefore to actor James Cromwell, a man who has played a US president four times on screen, to lend the event some star power and try to inject a sense of urgency into talks.
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Dec 18, 2022 
China Petrochemical Corp, or Sinopec, the world's largest refiner by volume and the country's biggest geothermal developer, vows to further tap geothermal energy sources as part of the widespread adoption of renewable energy nationwide.
The geothermal heating service of the oil giant will provide emissions-free heating for residential areas, adding up to nearly 85 million square meters thi ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Dec 16, 2022 
Climate change and habitat degradation will cause extinctions that cascade through communities of animals and plants and drive dramatic biodiversity loss, according to new research published on Friday.
The study, in the journal Science Advances, found that chain-reaction extinctions are unavoidable and predicted Earth's ecosystems will see average biodiversity loss of between six and 10 perc ... more |
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 London (AFP) Dec 15, 2022  China has removed six diplomats from the UK, including its consul-general in Manchester, after they were accused of assaulting a Hong Kong protester in the northern English city, Britain said Wednesday.
UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the six envoys had left the country by a Wednesday deadline imposed by London for them to waive their diplomatic immunity and be questioned by police ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 
The European Union reached an agreement Tuesday to ban the import of products including coffee, cocoa and soy in cases where they are deemed to contribute to deforestation.
The draft law, which aims to ensure "deforestation-free supply chains" for the 27-nation EU, was hailed by environmental groups as "groundbreaking".
It requires companies importing into the EU to guarantee products ar ... more |
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